Monday, 26th August 2013
What’s it like being an attendee at Google I/O?
It’s a fantastic opportunity to spend quality time with the Google employees who built the APIs you build software on top of—the core Android team, the Google Maps people, the Chrome engineers etc. it’s kind of like Apple’s WWDC in that regard—short of going to work for Google there is no better way to meet and interrogate that many expert Google engineers in one place.
[... 84 words]Benefits and disadvantages of cashflow positive startups joining an accelerator program?
YC has a very low time commitment. There is a dinner once a week (which takes up the evening from 6pm onwards), and any other sessions are 20-30 minute slots you book yourself with the YC partners and advisors. My experience was that most teams have 2-3 of these a week.
[... 338 words]How to find the URL of a page in an iframe?
You can’t, as this would be a security and privacy violation. Imagine an evil website which loads up Google in a full page iframe and then tracks what the unsuspecting user searches for and clicks on.
[... 125 words]What are some good Facebook Graph search queries?
Employment related ones can be interesting: “friends of my friends who have worked for Google” for example.
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